Word: sound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...THURSDAY.Physics A. (Course for freshmen). Sound, with especial reference to the telephone and phonograph. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 12 m. Open to all members of the university...
...Sound, with especial reference to the Telephone and Phonograph. Professor Trowbridge...
...account of the illness of Professor Peirce there will be only eight lectures in Physics A. Commencing next Thursday Professor Trowbridge will deliver four. The first will be on Sound with especial attention to the telephone and the phonograph. The second will be on Photography; the third on Spectrum Analysis, and the fourth on the Relation of Light, Heat, and Electricity. The last four lectures will be given by Professor Hall. The first will be Thursday April 17, on Prime Movers. The second will be on Steam Engines; the third on Dynamos, and the fourth on the Electric Railway...
...attitude of Cornell relative to the refusal of Harvard and Yale to row her crew is hardly sound to say the least. There are two valid reasons for the refusal. Neither Harvard nor Yale can be expected to enter a three cornered race or to row two races. In view of these facts it is hardly to be supposed that either will forfeit its engagement with the other in order to enter a race with Cornell, particularly when the interest of both colleges and of the country centres upon the Harvard and Yale race more than upon any one event...
James Russell Lowell then delivered an address, saying that Harvard was founded to perpetuate sound learning, chiefly through the three languages, Hebrew, Greek and Latin. This tradition long held so strong a sway that the language was considered to vouch for good literature, and men forgot that it is the thought, not the language that makes a writer immortal. Now men have come to realize the value of knowing other languages, not only on account of its use in teaching us the true meaning of our own words, but the training in style we gain from reading more writers...